Foundation Manager

Position Description

The School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) Foundation Manager reports to the School Nutrition Association Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and is responsible for managing the foundation fundraising activities and day-to-day business operations. The position designs and implements fund development initiatives and oversees all scholarship program activities.

Position Responsibilities

• Under the direction of the CEO, develop and implement the business plan for the Foundation and execute fundraising campaigns and events for the Foundation and recommends new ideas, grants products, or services for SNF to pursue as potential revenue sources.
• Maintains the overall operations of the Foundation including, but not limited to, budgeting, marketing, project management, reporting, updating policies and procedures, managing scholarship and grant programs, monitoring SNF profiles on charity watchdog web sites,
• Supports the CEO with preparations and follow up for Foundation Board meetings, including preparing agendas and reports and drafting presentations, talking points, and minutes.
• Leverages the Foundation’s social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) as the voice of SNF to reach a wide audience of stakeholders in school nutrition and works with SNF and SNA staff and consultants engaged in social media to collaborate on effective outlets for information distribution.
• Collaborates with the MarCom & Industry Relations Center to market foundation activities and provide content for SNA/SNF newsletters, web stories, social media platforms, and communication channels as necessary.
• Collaborates with the Career Development & Conference Center to strategize and develop plans to integrate SNF resources with SNA professional development offerings and pitch and develop grant-funded programs to provide professional development to SNA members.
• Act as the primary interface with, and direct the efforts of, a fundraising consultant and fundraising volunteers.
• Create and build donor relationships and partnerships to drive engagement in annual fundraising and scholarship campaigns and fundraising events.
• Manages the execution of all scholarship programs including recruiting and training judges and reviewing applications.
• Maintains systems to track, report, and analyze all relevant information generated by programs and analyzes various key performance indicators for overall foundation operations.

Financial and Budget Management

• Responsible for annual SNF budget, including detailed accurate projections and planning for revenue and expenses; tracks data monthly, alerts CEO and Vice President Finance & Administration of any issues or concerns that may impact revenue and expense goals; tracks historical experience data; and meets budget goals.
• Establishes and meets or exceeds annual revenue targets.
• Ensures donor and gift information are entered in the database accurately and promptly and ensures donations are tracked and recognized for tax-purposes.

Position Relationships

• Works with SNA and SNF staff and members daily.
• Works with SNF Board and Committee members, industry members and volunteers on SNF fundraising events, and scholarship programs.
• Supports and liaises with SNF Scholarship Committee and task forces, as requested.

Supervision

• Receives general supervision and direction from position’s supervisor. Exercises independent judgment and discretion.
• Supervises the Foundation Assistant

QualificationsEducation

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a relevant field (list fields), or equivalent training and professional work experience, is required.

Experience

• Three years or more of demonstrated experience managing or administering a program or service with minimum supervision, including planning, recommending policy and procedures, budgeting, monitoring and evaluating.
• Work experience in food services, nutrition or related environment preferred.
• Work experience in an association or other service-oriented environment with customer service responsibilities preferred.
• One year experience supervising one or more people with human resources management responsibilities preferred (if appropriate).

Skills

• Demonstrated skills in program planning, budgeting, evaluation and analysis to achieve results and organizational goals.
• Ability to coach, train and motivate one or two staff persons to achieve results and organizational goals.
• Demonstrated skills in collaboration, teamwork and working in a group to achieve specific goals and meet deadlines.
• Highly developed communications skills, including professional writing and editing and verbal skills for a variety of internal and external audiences. Ability to write final drafts with minimal editing support.
• Ability to juggle significant workloads to meet long- and short-term deadlines and to keep pace with the demands of daily operations.
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adapt to organizational change.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Reference to the technology skills required for the specific job; e.g., excellent skills in Microsoft Word applications, Excel, database management or utilization, etc.